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\ ' \/ NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF ROC HOSIER Vol. 80 No. 13 ' ' ' 16 Pages 1868 tOOth \ ANNIVERSARY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE 01 ROCHESTER Rochester, New York ' Price: 15c: Friday, Dec. 27, 1968 Archbishop Visits Troops Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York greets servicemen and their families after celebrating Mass in the Eighth Infantry barracks at Baumho>lder, West Germany. The prelate, who is military vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces, shakes hands ^vith Spec. 4 Randall W. Snyder of Rockford, 111., as the serviceman's wife (back to camera) watches. Archbishop Cooke, on a round-the-world tour, was scheduled to spend Christmas with A.merican troops in Vietnam. (RNS) 'Holy Hour' To Be Aired Tuesday Eve A Holy Hour on New Year's Eve, car- ried throughout the diocese by two radio stations and the audio-channels of four TV-cable systems will offer meditation and prayer for listeners who wish to close the old year quietly. Rochester's WSAY and Auburn's WMBO - FM, plus TV - cable setups in Auburn, Corning, Elmira and Hornell will air the radio Holy Hour from 11:15 to 12:15 on Tuesday evening. Dec. 31. from St Francis of Assisi Church, Rochester. Msgr. Joseph A. Cirrincione, pastor of St. Francis and longtime director of the nightly Radio Rosary for Peace program, and Father Richard Tormey, editor of the Courier Journal, will con- duct the Holy Hour exercises in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. The public,- as. well as St. Francis pa- rishioners, is invited to attend. Father Tormey will give four short addresses on the themes of Love, Fi- delity, Justice and Sacrifice, applying these virtues to both man's relations to God and to his neighbor. Msgr. Cir- rincione will read the meditations and prayers. New Priests' Council Cb forDi osen ror uiocese Priests of the diocese have chosen a new Priests' Council to meet regularly with Bishop Sheen for representation of the clergy's opinions and needs and for consultation on diocesan problems. The 16-member Council succeeds the first democratically-chosen advisory board whose 2-year term ended in early December. Five members of the first council have been reelected for a second term, according to Father Joseph F. Hogan, pastor of St. Vincent's, Corning, who was responsible • for conducting the mail-balloting among diocesan clergy. The inaugural meeting of the new Council will be Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 2 p.m. at the Paste*ral Office, he declared. Members of the Priests' Council. each chosen by his own age-block and representing about 26 priests apiece, are, in order of seniority: Msgr. Robert A. Kelleher, retired; Rev. Thomas F. Brennan, St. Mary's, Corning; Rev. Joseph M. McDonnell, St. Michael's, Newark; Rev. Paul Cud- dy, Mercy Hospital, Homell; Rev. Fran- cis Pegnairt, St. Thomas More, Roches- ter. Rev. Joseph F. Hogan, St. Vin- cent's, Corning; Rev. Paul G. Wohlrab, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Rochester; Rev. John T. Walsh, St. Paul's Web- ster; Msgr. George A. Cocuzzi, Holy Family. Rochester; Rev. Frederick W. Bush, Old St. Mary's Rochester; Rev. John J. Hesnpel, Secular Mission, Penn Yan; Rev. Edward Kowalski, St. Cas- imir, Elmira; Rev. Paul J. McCabe, Corpus Christi, Rochester; Rev, James Lawlor, Chaplain, University of Roch- ester; Rev. Charles Mulligan, Sacred Heart, Auburn; Rev. William Swlngly, St. Salome's, Rochester. 'World Day of Peace' Observance Scheduled Jan. 5 ON THE INSIDE Bishop Sheen 6 Around the World 5 Commentary 14 Diocesan 7 , Editorial 6 Entertainment 10 Women's Page 8 Sports 13 IF YOU MOVE . . let MS know about it so we can kttp your Courier coming to you on time. Phone or mail us notice of your change of ad- dress. Include your old address and new address and the name of your parish. Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Phone 716-454-7030. Washington — (NC) — The Bishops of the U.S., acceding bo an appeal from Pope Paul VI, htave asked national ob- servance of \World Day for Peace\ on Sunday, Jan. 5». Public prayers and homilies on the theme of peace will be officially set in all dioceses of the na- tion. A special Votive Mass for Peace will be permitted ift parish churches that day in .place of the Mass of the Epi- phany (transferred recently by the Congregation or Rites from the tradi- tional Jan. 6 to the nearest Sunday to the 6th). (The Courier-Journal will print ma- jor excerpts from Pope Paul's Day of Peac« Message in next week's issue, Jan. 3.) 65 P.C. of Catholics In U.S. attend IMass Washington — Sixty-five percent of the U.S. Catholics attend church in a typical week.according to year-end fig- ures reported by the Gallup Poll, but this is 9 percentage points lower than '58 figures. The Gallup Polity study of attend- ance, based on seven national surveys during the year, shows that 43 percent of all U.S. adults attend church in a typical week, amounting to a projected 50 million persons. This is less than last year's record, but churchgoing in the U.S. still re- mains higher than in 10 other nations of the Western world. Declining attendance among young adults in their 20's is the chief cause for the 10-year sag. \Peace is a duty,\ the Pope said, \de- spite the experience of the last few years and the recent current of evil that seems to suffocate all hopes of a peaceful order...The world cannot give up its hopes of universal peace, which is the light of progress and civiliza- tion.\ \Our voice is feeble but clear,\ he said. \It Is the voice of a friend who desires that it be heard not so much because of who says it but of what he says.\ Pope Paul's message was addressed to all men of goodwill, including politi- cal leaders and those who influence public opinion, Vatican Radio said in a commentary, but, \it is even more directed to Catholic bishops and the faithful for whom the request to cele- brate a day of peace becomes a duty.\ Catholicism Nearingr No. 1 in Australia Canberra, Australia — (NC) — The Catholic Church seems certain to re- place the Anglican Church as Austral- ia's biggest denomination, according to studies made public in The Australian, a national daily. In The Australian article, Patrick Tennison said census figures in Vic- toria between 1947 and 1966 showed an increase in the state's population from 2.05 million to 3.21 million, a rise of 1..16 million or 56%. But in the 19-year period, the Cath- olic increase was 469,834 or 112% while the .Anglican increase was only 193,175 or 26%. Reasons given for the trend are the larger number of children in the av- erage Catholic family and the migra- tion to Australia of larger numbers of European Citholics. October Synod of Bishops Is Scheduled by Pope Paul (From Courier Journal sources) Rome — Pope Paul VI announced (Dec. 23) the summoning of an extra- ordinary session of the Synod of Bish- ops for next Oct. 11 to discuss \better cooperation and more fruitful con- tacts\ between the Holy See and na- tional conferences of bishops. Attendance at such a special synod, \extraordinary will probably be limit- ed to the presidents of the national groups of bishops, cardinals of the Ro- man Curia and major prelates of the Eastern Church. A \general synod\ held in Rome in 1967 as an expression of the collegial rule in the Church proclaimed by Vati- can II which ended in 1965, was at- tended by a larger number of bishops chosen by the national episcopal con- ferences in proportion to their own number. The announcement of the future synod came in the Pope's traditional year - end address to the College of Cardinals. The Holy Father expressed his confidence in the basic devotion and loyalty of the clergy and laity despite some disquieting signs of \re- volt and challenge.\ In his wide-ranging review of the last year, the Pope voiced continuing con- cern over armed conflict in Vietnam, the Middle East and Nigeria, reassert- ed the divine origins of his papal au- thority and defended his use of it to reaffirm the prohibition of contracep- tion. \Placed by Christ, as the successor of Peter, as the visible foundation and universal pastor of the Church,\ he said, it Is his duty to \guard unharmed the sacred deposit of truth.\ The Pope asserted it was wrong to seek to \suffocate\ the ferment in the church which he admitted \can some- times assume the tone and aspect of revolt and challenge.\ Rather, he asserted, reslstence should he considered as evidence of vitality and renewal to be channelled and directed within proper limits. Referring to his encyclical of last July, \Humanae Vitae\ the Holy Fa- ther said he had taken note of the flood of dissent his teaching had provoked. He said he would sometime give \the responses that appear necessary\. This seemed to predict a papal exege- sis of his encyclical responding to the various national conferences of Bish- ops who have attempted to clarify its meaning and apply its controls to their own people. Pope on Christmas Pope. Paul VI applauded America's \daring\ Apollo 8 moon shot and prayed for the three astronauts and the \happy success\ of their mission. In his customary Sunday noon ad- dress to the crowd in St. Peter's Square, the Pope expressed the hope that man's first interplanetary flight would help him expand his concept of self in \that marvelous universe\ where God's greatness is ever more evident.\ \With the whole world that anxious- ly follows the most audacious and well- studied feat, we, too, raise our applause for the incalculable scientific and or- ganization effort, which has made pos- sible the daring and unbelievable ad- venture. \We accompany with our prayers the courageous astronauts flying in space at a dizzying speed, wishing a happy success to a risky interplanetary voy- age.\ By James C. O'Neill (NC News Service) Vatican City — Christ is the \true and highest hope of mankind\ because only through Him can mankind be saved from itself. This was the central theme of Pope Paul VI's Christmas message to the world. Speaking from a specially equip- ped studio in tho Vatican, the Pope noted that today \everything moves and changes under the sign and with the strength of hope.\ The Pope sold \we live in the era of hope.\ He added: \It is however, a hope In the kingdom of this earth, a hope in human self-sufficiency. And it is pre- cisely in our day that hope Is going through a most serious crisis.\ In his introductory remarks Pope Paul gently led his hearers Into the vortex of the modern paradox of hope and hopelessness in a world beset by change and upheaval. But man's hope today, he went on, Is leading man not to be \any longer satisfied with what exists at the present time.\ \At one time the experience of the older generation was the guarantee of actual or desirable order. But now It is just that order which Is attacked, and precisely because It Is Inherited from the past. It Is overturned rather than preserved and renewed In the blind hope that what Is new will of Itself be fruitful for human progress. No further credence Is now given to the sttblc values of faith, culture and Institutions.\ Speaking of the perils created by some forms of progress for peace, Pope Paul added: \The destructive power of modern man is incalculable. And the fatal probable use of such power to devastate the city of man depends upon causes which are tragically free, which neither science nor technique can of themselves dominate. Thus it happens that instead of hope there comes forth anguish.\ Because man has built up nn econ- omic and social system with \superb practical results,\ he runs the danger of it \becoming his mechanical instru- ment of the great machine of produc- tion.\ There is the danger that this machin- ery will subject man \to a colossal ap- aratus of domination.\ This, said the Pope, gives rise to a \society redundant with material wcllbeing, satisfied, sat- iated, hut lacking In superior Ideals which give meaning and value to life, and, as It were, deaf to the groani of the poor, near or far, who yet call them- selves men and aro In fact hrotheri.\ Among young people deprived, of.ab- solute principles and assailed by doubt and agnosticism, \contestation became the fashion with the temptation of de- generating Into rebellion, violence and anarchy.\ The Pope lamented lhat in all the present confusion \historical cultural and mom] values which are still valid and worthy are being lost\ to the dam- age of the enlire civilized community. Summing up the dark picture ho had drawn of modern man. Pope Paul said: \Perhiips never before as much as in our day have literature, Ihe theater, art and philosophical thought cruelly borne witness to the deficiency of man, hfsrmntiil weakness, his domination by sensuality, his moral hypocrisy, his fac- ile delinquency, his increasing cruelty, his possible abjection, his inconsistent personality.\ Yet all this brings back more force- fully than ever. Pope Paul declared, the unavoidable need of humanity to be saved. The name or Jesus Christ \Is the proclamation of our salvatlon...Thls Is why our proclamation of Christmas after nearly 20 centuries remains fresh and new and, by reason of our faith in Christmas, we may add, remains valid.\ By becoming man. Christ restored to man \freedom dignity and the cxpee- tntion of the Ideal man. making us cap- able of goodness, justice and peace... This Is the Incarnation which spreads from Christ lo embrace nil mankind, to shake and arouse it. to torment It, to regenerate it now in time so as to guide II beyond time toward eternity.\ 6 In the Footsteps of St Peter By LOUIS PANARALE (NC News Service) Taranto, Italy—Not since St. Peter passed this way nearly 2,000 years ago had there ever been a pope to visit this ancient seaport. On Christ- mas Eve Pope Paul VI came to Taranto. Historians have written thaTfSt. Peter came to Rome by traveling on the ancient Roman Appian Way and, therefore, had to pass through Taran- to, which was then called Tarantum. Apparently he passed unnoticed and it is not known if he stopped to rest here. When Pope Paul came here this Christmas EVc to say Mass for work- ers at the giant steel-producing com- plex of Italsidcr, he was greeted by thousands of faithful. After his motorcade left the air- port, where he was met by 28 bish- ops from this Apulia district, he was greeted by the cheering throngs who held vigil lights as they stood along the road to Taranto. The torchlight vigil continued all along the route. After the Pope en- tered the Piazza_ Maria Immacolata, where the civil officials had gather- ed with Taranto's Mayor Angelo Curci, he paused to hear the mayor's welcoming address. Then the Papal entourage con- tinued its journey to a small canal bridge that connects modern Taranto to the ancient quarter, n rectangular shaped island, where the poorer classes live. At the bridge there were hundreds of Boy Scouts, who stood by as the Papal motorcade crossed into the ancient quarter, which is said to have been in existence 1,200 years before the founding of Rome. Winding, narrow streets mark the old quarter. The small Cathedral of San Cataldo was filled to capacity with priests, nuns and Brothers of various reli- gious orders, who were waiting to be addressed by the Pope. This old Romanesque cathedral had under- gone a thorough house cleaning. Young boys worked with dust mops attached to a series of poles so that they could reach up to the corners and crevices of its elaborate -stone- work. Aftcr\ briefly addressing the priests and Religious at the cathedral, and after visiting the residence of the Archbishop Gugllelmo Motolcse, the Pope continued on his journey to Italslder in the giant industrial area of modern-day Taranto. In the dis- tance could be seen the giant smoke stacks puffing out yellowish smoke, making the night atmosphere slight* ly hazy. The Holy Father slopped briefly to , greet about 50 men working at blast furnaces. Then he moved on towards the iron smelting plant where he paused at one of the huge smelting thimbles to greet another group of workers. The molorcadr headed for its final destination — a sprawling building which normally serves as a steel roll- ing mill. But on this night it would serve ns 41 \cathedral of steel\ in the words of Archbishop Motolcse. More than 15.000 persons cheered the Popr* as he entered the are«i of the plant chosen for the worship and walked toward nn altar which had been fashioned out of steel by work- ers of the plant. On this altar of steel the Pope said his Mass. Television cameras focussed on the altar set in the long nave of the structure called the \sheet-steel train\ carried the services to an esti- mated 250 million viewers in Eur- ope. Twenty large television screens set In the public squares and streets of Taranto brought the Mass to the townspeople. One hundred workers received Holy Communion from the Pope. Another group of workers presented the Pope with Symbolic gifts I'of 1 Ibrcfad and wine. One worker, on behalf ol all workers in the plant, presented the Pope with a small steel plate. Etched on It was an olive branch, a cherished symbol of love and esteem in this part of the world. In explain- ing earlier what was the significance of this Mass, Archbishop Motolese perhaps summed it all up when he said that this Mass was not only for workers here, \but for the workers of the world.\ X
